Phase 1 Trials in Pancreatic Cancer

  • Esther Yu Department of Radiation Oncology, Tufts Medical Center. Boston, MA, USA
  • Muhammad Wasif Saif Departments of Radiation Oncology and Medical Oncology, Tufts Medical Center. Boston, MA, USA
  • Kathryn Huber Department of Radiation Oncology, Tufts Medical Center. Boston, MA, USA
Keywords: Clinical Trials, Phase I as Topic, Drug Therapy, Pancreatic Neoplasms, Radioimmunotherapy

Abstract

Despite many clinical trials over the last two decades since the approval of gemcitabine, the survival of patients with pancreatic cancer has improved by a few only months. This disappointing reality underlines an urgent need to develop more effective drugs or better combinations. A variety of phase I trials were presented at the annual meeting of ASCO 2014 focusing on locally advanced and metastatic pancreatic cancer. We summarize four abstracts (abstracts #4116, #4123, #4026, #4138).

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Radiation Oncology, Tufts Medical Center. Boston, MA, USA
Published
2014-07-28
How to Cite
YuE., SaifM., & HuberK. (2014). Phase 1 Trials in Pancreatic Cancer. JOP. Journal of the Pancreas, 15(4), 326-328. https://doi.org/10.6092/1590-8577/2683
Section
Highlights from the “50th ASCO Annual Meeting 2014”. Chicago, IL, USA. May 30 - June 3, 2014